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NCT Number: NCT05760014

Medical Hypnosis and Stress Reduction in Hospitalization

Patients with chronic diseases, especially rare diseases with uncertain diagnoses, have a representation of their disease and an experience of their hospitalization that is sometimes traumatic, distressing and painful. Patients hospitalized can benefit from non-medicinal techniques, such as medical hypnosis, which could improve the perceived stress in these patients and thus optimize the hospitalization experience. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of medical hypnosis in reducing stress and improving the experience of hospitalization comparing two groups : a group (cases) benefiting from an hypnotic technic " the place of safety " and a control group without intervention during hospitalization

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Key information

Conditions

Stress

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

service de médecine interne CHU Lille

Lille, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients hospitalised in the internal medicine department of the Lille University Hospital
  • Age>= 18 years
  • Patients having expressed their non opposition

Exclusion criteria

  • Not covered by the social security system
  • Person unable to receive informed information
  • Persons deprived of liberty
  • Persons under legal protection (guardianship / curatorship)
  • Psychotic and/or dementia disorders
  • Pregnant and breastfeeding women

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. STAI questionnaire dimension STAI completed at discharge.

    Time frame: At discharge, an average 10 days

    STAI-ETAT

Secondary outcomes

  1. The STAI ETAT (the current emotional state) questionnaire

    Time frame: at baseline and at discharge, an average 10 days

    State Trait Anxiety Inventory Etat - Trait (40 questions - each item has a score from 1 to 4 (4 being the highest level of anxiety))

  2. The STAI-TRAIT (the usual emotional state ) questionnaire

    Time frame: at baseline and at discharge, an average 10 days

    State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-TRAIT) SCORE: 20 items in the form of a 4-response Likert scale (from 1 : low anxiety to 4 : highest anxiety). The score goes from 20 to 80 depending of the degree of anxiety

  3. patient opinion questionnaire

    Time frame: At discharge, an average 10 days

  4. The difference in STAI STATUS score between the questionnaire completed post-hypnotic treatment and the questionnaire at admission

    Time frame: At discharge, an average 10 days

  5. The ordinal severity scale correlated with the STAI ETAT questionnaire score;

    Time frame: At discharge, an average 10 days

  6. Self-rated stress scale correlated with the STAI ETAT questionnaire score.

    Time frame: At discharge, an average 10 days

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Lille

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Interest of Medical Hypnosis in Reducing Stress and Improving the Experience of Hospitalization in Internal Medicine

Acronym: HYPNOSTRESS

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Mar 8, 2023
Registry last updated
Dec 26, 2025

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